Anna: Can't think. Too many ideas..
Anaka: Ever have one of those times where you just can't write down one
story, so you write several?
Katya: You guys had better not start that commercial-thing.
Anaka & Anna: Sorry.
Yugi: Could you please hurry? I want to see what happens next!!!
Yami: I would, too. I've been wondering about what's going to happen
between the billionaire and the sweetheart dancing-singing actress.
Anna: WE'RE DOING THE BEST WE CAN!!!
Yami: O_O *squeaks* Sorry!
~*~ Note to Viv & Co. - Thanks for the idea. you guys may get a spot in here with everything that you're doing with your version, (for those not in the know it's Hidden Pasts and Secret Dreams. It's in the crossover section for some reason now. I have yet to know why. I mean other than a few mentions of other shows and/or stories, it's nothing.) We'll work on getting you in there somehow. maybe. it all depends on what each person (authoress. but you figured it out, didn't you?) wants to do. ~*~
Yugi: Anna and Katya Anaka: Do not own Yami: Anything that is Yugi: Yu-Gi-Oh! oriented Anaka: Or that is found Yami: In the real world.
//Yami to Yugi// /Yugi to Yami/
Thought
~*~ POV change ~*~ :: Time change(and we don't mean Daylight Savings either)::
Anna: Just a warning, this chapter is rated PG-13 for most of the language towards the end of the chapter.
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::The next day:: ~*~ Anna's POV ~*~
I was headed to my first class when I saw it. The thing that I never had wanted to see.
When I turned the corner I saw Seto. And Brittney. Kissing. He looked like he was enjoying it, too.
They pulled apart. Seto had seen me.
"Anna!"
I made my way by the two. I hurried and tried not to make eye contact with either of them.
I could hear his footsteps as he followed me. He stopped momentarily, then started after me again.
"Anna! Anna! Wait, Anna! Stop!"
~*~ Seto's POV ~*~
I couldn't stand that girl and she had to push it. That so-called girl that I had as my candidate partner wanted me as her boyfriend. But I didn't want her.
No. I wanted someone else to fill that position.
Brittney had pulled me into a kiss. One that I hated and had no taste for. She had forced it and I had tried my hardest to fight it.
I pulled out of it. That's when I saw Anna standing there.
Thoughts raced through my mind as I silently panicked. Oh no! What did she see? I asked myself, slapping myself mentally.
"Anna!" I cried aloud.
Forcing my legs to move, I went towards her. Praying, I hoped that I could talk to her. Tell her that I-
She went past us quickly. Her eyes were shut.
No, no, no, no, NO! Not my day, I cried in my head. I started after her.
"Anna! Anna! Wait, Anna!"
There was a small giggle behind me. I stopped in my tracks and spun around, glaring.
Brittney was standing there, acting innocent. She wasn't fooling me. Not after she had blown it for herself when she hounded Yugi like she did during the whole Tea situation.
"Don't you ever do that again!" I hissed at her.
The look on her face was of confusion. Right, like that could fool me. She couldn't fool anyone of us who are Yugi's friends. Not in a million years. Well, maybe the Chihuahua and possibly Tristan, but not anyone else of our group.
I turned back around and started going back for the girl that I did have feelings for.
"Stop!" I pleaded.
She didn't.
::Lunch:: ~*~ Katya's POV ~*~
It got to lunch and something was wrong. Everyone was at the table. Everyone except Anna.
Anna had Karen helping her with her tray. The two of them passed us and went to another table. A table known for some of the school's best actors and actresses sitting there.
I shook my head. "Why is she sitting with them? Doesn't she want to sit with us?"
"Not while I'm sitting here, she doesn't."
All of our heads turned towards Seto. He hadn't eaten much of his food. It was one of the better meals that the school provided, which made it a little worse. There was also the fact that he looked upset about something.
"What happened?" Yami was brave enough to ask.
"Little Miss Bitchney happened."
I automatically clued in on the nickname usage. We had given her that name after the Tea incident. The way he used it made me think that this wasn't good at all.
"What did she do?" Yugi questioned.
I, myself, wanted to know. But for some reason I just couldn't. When my angel of a boyfriend asked, I was relieved of it.
"She kissed me on the lips in the middle of the hallway." The CEO swallowed hard, then added, "Anna saw."
Seto pushed his tray away from himself and lay his head in his folded arms on the table. All of us could tell that he was depressed.
"I never got the chance to explain that I wasn't kissing back. That I was fighting it the entire time."
"Why don't you tell her now?" Ryou suggested, "I mean, go over and talk to her. What could it hurt, right?"
"I guess I could try."
Seto got up and went over to our friend. She stood up, leaning on the table some, from what I could see. The next thing we know-
SLAP!
All of us at the table cringed as we turned back around. I looked to Yugi and Yami, shaking my head.
Our plan, as we had known it, was backfiring. And the two people we were helping were getting burned.
~*~ Yugi's POV ~*~
The plan to get Anna and Seto together was going downhill fast. Katya, Yami, and I would have to think of something along the lines of a plan B when we got back to Yami and my home after school.
I told my darker half through our link. I hoped that he would help in making this a little easier on all of us.
//Yes, I agree with you completely aibou,// he answered me.
/Thank you, Yami. Plan B is going to be harder and more challenging to create and accomplish./
::After School:: ~*~ Yami's POV ~*~
I watched over Anna for the rest of the day. Well, when I could, anyway. Then I would update Katya and Yugi.
We were heading home after classes when she finally spoke.
"Yami, why?"
I was confused in what she meant. "Why what?"
"Why are you walking me home? Why were you watching me since lunch? Where do you want to start?"
I hesitated. Where would I start? I would eventually get to the reason, but I couldn't reveal what was going on with everyone else of the group. The plan had to stay a secret.
"Well, you're one of Yugi and my friends, it's the week of Valentine's Day, and you are unhappy. I want to try and cheer you up."
"What do you expect after what Seto did? He kissed her. In front of me! And to think that I had a crush on him."
I had to admit myself that when Seto had first revealed this to us, I was shocked, but then relieved when he said that he didn't kiss back. If I had heard Anna's version first, I would have been just as ticked.
Somehow, I swore to myself, Somehow we will get these two together for Valentine's Day. Even if it kills us.
Glancing over at my raven-haired companion, I noticed her eyes. Her blue-green eyes revealed it, even though I could only get a side glimpse of them. It was still there. There was no hatred, only hurt. But it was still there.
She still cared for him. Loved him.
"I just. I don't know. I just wish that I hadn't seen that," my friend whispered.
As we walked, Anna shifted her backpack a little bit. One of the zippers started to come undone. I raised my hand to fix it for her.
"Leave it, Yami," she told me, "It'll be fine."
For some reason, I felt uneasy just leaving it alone. Like I wanted to prevent something.
As the two of us were heading for a street intersection, we heard murmuring. When we got closer, the words became clearer.
"Why would you want her as your queen when you could have me? I mean honestly, she's seen better days," I heard a girl say.
The familiarity of the voice, for some reason, rang in my ears. It was Brittney, the female, blonde bimbo. I wondered who she was talking to.
"I would understand that. Her crutches and everything. Most of her votes, if she gets any, will most likely be pity votes. You, on the other hand will be getting every single vote on your own accord. I like that in you. I don't want to be her pairing anymore."
I was insulted. And I thought that he was a friend, too. But he had betrayed us time and time again. The creep had been a part of a gang that had gone after Yugi a few weeks before, and then this had to happen.
Anna was getting upset when she heard the voice. When we reached the corner, she turned toward the two that were talking. I turned as well. It had been who I had thought it was.
"DUKE DEVLIN, HOW DARE YOU!"
I stood back. I had never seen Anna blow her top like that before. Never.
"Anna, I- I- I-"
"You- you- you- you what? Didn't mean it? Sure, right, uh-huh. And you didn't mean to flirt with her either, right?"
I was going to step in and pull her out, but I stopped myself. Duke needed this reality check. This was going to be the second of many that he would be getting in the future, I realized.
Watching Anna's backpack zipper, I noticed that it had unzipped halfway, and was still undoing itself slowly. There was a book of some sort inside of the pocket that was being undone. If the closure opened any more, it would surely fall out.
"Look, what she was saying. What she was doing-"
"Was wanting me to look bad. I heard you agree with her. Even talking about how most my votes would be from pity. That is, if I got any," she snapped.
I tried to re-zip the pocket. She sent me a death glare and I just stepped back. Had I gone after it again with her in that dangerous of a mood, I would have probably lost my arm.
"Listen, Devlin, I will get those votes on my own, not from pity. And I will get more than her. I just thank the heavens that the Sweethearts pairings are only for activities and not really for the couples. If they had been, my pairing would be short a king."
"Well don't you feel special," Brittney smirked, laughing a little bit.
"Don't you EVEN get me started on you, b*tch. I have had enough of you and I swear I will get even with you."
"What are you talking about? What did I do to you?"
"Remember last semester when you were bashing and making fun of Yugi Motou? Do you remember that, you snobby piece of white-trash?"
I attempted to pull her away by her arm. She stayed put.
"Vaguely, yes," the blonde-ditz wonder sighed, rolling her eyes at my angered, crutch-bearing friend. "Why?"
"Yugi is my friend and you had no right to do that to him. To see you do what you did and say what you said didn't just hurt him. Hell no, you selfish dog, it hurt all of his friends. And, may I remind you that Seto Kaiba - you know, the one you like so much - is one of them as well. So if you want him, you are going to have to do a heck of a freaking lot more than just flirt with him and try to make yourself look pretty. Oh, no, those won't be enough to cut it with him. And don't even try apologizing to any and/or all of us alone either. There is nothing that you or your little friends can do, snotty little daughter of a piece of $h!t."
Brittney just stared at Anna. She was. She was terrified of her now. I had to admit, she had scared me, too. But both Brittney and Duke deserved this.
"Anna, stop this!" Devlin finally got the nerve to say.
"Duke, shut up."
"No, this is between you and me. Not you and her."
"Listen, you so-called friend, this stopped being just between you and me when you started flirting with this piece of garbage."
Anna turned away from the two and started to go to her home by herself. I watched as the book that was in the unzipping pocket slipped over halfway out.
"Anna!"
She spun around on her good foot, her crutches off the ground and the book flying out of her bag. "Devlin, just shut up! You just don't understand what the hell you've done." With that, she just went back to walking to her house alone.
Going over to where the book lay in the snow, I saw that it was a white, hard-back book with a glossy-type of protection on it. Multi-colored butterflies filled the entire front and back of it.
Hesitantly, I picked it up. I wiped the snow off of it and examined it further. It was a journal. Anna's journal. I had seen her write in it several times, I had just never realized it.
That's when I was hit with some sort of wave of confusion. I thought to myself, should I return this to her now. or wait until tomorrow?
Then I started to walk for Yugi and my home where he and Katya were waiting.
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Anaka: O_O Yami: I had no clue you knew such language. Anna: I know a heck of a lot more than that. That's not even the tip of the iceberg. Katya: Well. That was one interesting chapter that has to be followed up with. Yugi: Anna and Katya wish that you R&R and they would like it if you DID NOT FLAME!!!!!
~*~ Note to Viv & Co. - Thanks for the idea. you guys may get a spot in here with everything that you're doing with your version, (for those not in the know it's Hidden Pasts and Secret Dreams. It's in the crossover section for some reason now. I have yet to know why. I mean other than a few mentions of other shows and/or stories, it's nothing.) We'll work on getting you in there somehow. maybe. it all depends on what each person (authoress. but you figured it out, didn't you?) wants to do. ~*~
Yugi: Anna and Katya Anaka: Do not own Yami: Anything that is Yugi: Yu-Gi-Oh! oriented Anaka: Or that is found Yami: In the real world.
//Yami to Yugi// /Yugi to Yami/
Thought
~*~ POV change ~*~ :: Time change(and we don't mean Daylight Savings either)::
Anna: Just a warning, this chapter is rated PG-13 for most of the language towards the end of the chapter.
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::The next day:: ~*~ Anna's POV ~*~
I was headed to my first class when I saw it. The thing that I never had wanted to see.
When I turned the corner I saw Seto. And Brittney. Kissing. He looked like he was enjoying it, too.
They pulled apart. Seto had seen me.
"Anna!"
I made my way by the two. I hurried and tried not to make eye contact with either of them.
I could hear his footsteps as he followed me. He stopped momentarily, then started after me again.
"Anna! Anna! Wait, Anna! Stop!"
~*~ Seto's POV ~*~
I couldn't stand that girl and she had to push it. That so-called girl that I had as my candidate partner wanted me as her boyfriend. But I didn't want her.
No. I wanted someone else to fill that position.
Brittney had pulled me into a kiss. One that I hated and had no taste for. She had forced it and I had tried my hardest to fight it.
I pulled out of it. That's when I saw Anna standing there.
Thoughts raced through my mind as I silently panicked. Oh no! What did she see? I asked myself, slapping myself mentally.
"Anna!" I cried aloud.
Forcing my legs to move, I went towards her. Praying, I hoped that I could talk to her. Tell her that I-
She went past us quickly. Her eyes were shut.
No, no, no, no, NO! Not my day, I cried in my head. I started after her.
"Anna! Anna! Wait, Anna!"
There was a small giggle behind me. I stopped in my tracks and spun around, glaring.
Brittney was standing there, acting innocent. She wasn't fooling me. Not after she had blown it for herself when she hounded Yugi like she did during the whole Tea situation.
"Don't you ever do that again!" I hissed at her.
The look on her face was of confusion. Right, like that could fool me. She couldn't fool anyone of us who are Yugi's friends. Not in a million years. Well, maybe the Chihuahua and possibly Tristan, but not anyone else of our group.
I turned back around and started going back for the girl that I did have feelings for.
"Stop!" I pleaded.
She didn't.
::Lunch:: ~*~ Katya's POV ~*~
It got to lunch and something was wrong. Everyone was at the table. Everyone except Anna.
Anna had Karen helping her with her tray. The two of them passed us and went to another table. A table known for some of the school's best actors and actresses sitting there.
I shook my head. "Why is she sitting with them? Doesn't she want to sit with us?"
"Not while I'm sitting here, she doesn't."
All of our heads turned towards Seto. He hadn't eaten much of his food. It was one of the better meals that the school provided, which made it a little worse. There was also the fact that he looked upset about something.
"What happened?" Yami was brave enough to ask.
"Little Miss Bitchney happened."
I automatically clued in on the nickname usage. We had given her that name after the Tea incident. The way he used it made me think that this wasn't good at all.
"What did she do?" Yugi questioned.
I, myself, wanted to know. But for some reason I just couldn't. When my angel of a boyfriend asked, I was relieved of it.
"She kissed me on the lips in the middle of the hallway." The CEO swallowed hard, then added, "Anna saw."
Seto pushed his tray away from himself and lay his head in his folded arms on the table. All of us could tell that he was depressed.
"I never got the chance to explain that I wasn't kissing back. That I was fighting it the entire time."
"Why don't you tell her now?" Ryou suggested, "I mean, go over and talk to her. What could it hurt, right?"
"I guess I could try."
Seto got up and went over to our friend. She stood up, leaning on the table some, from what I could see. The next thing we know-
SLAP!
All of us at the table cringed as we turned back around. I looked to Yugi and Yami, shaking my head.
Our plan, as we had known it, was backfiring. And the two people we were helping were getting burned.
~*~ Yugi's POV ~*~
The plan to get Anna and Seto together was going downhill fast. Katya, Yami, and I would have to think of something along the lines of a plan B when we got back to Yami and my home after school.
I told my darker half through our link. I hoped that he would help in making this a little easier on all of us.
//Yes, I agree with you completely aibou,// he answered me.
/Thank you, Yami. Plan B is going to be harder and more challenging to create and accomplish./
::After School:: ~*~ Yami's POV ~*~
I watched over Anna for the rest of the day. Well, when I could, anyway. Then I would update Katya and Yugi.
We were heading home after classes when she finally spoke.
"Yami, why?"
I was confused in what she meant. "Why what?"
"Why are you walking me home? Why were you watching me since lunch? Where do you want to start?"
I hesitated. Where would I start? I would eventually get to the reason, but I couldn't reveal what was going on with everyone else of the group. The plan had to stay a secret.
"Well, you're one of Yugi and my friends, it's the week of Valentine's Day, and you are unhappy. I want to try and cheer you up."
"What do you expect after what Seto did? He kissed her. In front of me! And to think that I had a crush on him."
I had to admit myself that when Seto had first revealed this to us, I was shocked, but then relieved when he said that he didn't kiss back. If I had heard Anna's version first, I would have been just as ticked.
Somehow, I swore to myself, Somehow we will get these two together for Valentine's Day. Even if it kills us.
Glancing over at my raven-haired companion, I noticed her eyes. Her blue-green eyes revealed it, even though I could only get a side glimpse of them. It was still there. There was no hatred, only hurt. But it was still there.
She still cared for him. Loved him.
"I just. I don't know. I just wish that I hadn't seen that," my friend whispered.
As we walked, Anna shifted her backpack a little bit. One of the zippers started to come undone. I raised my hand to fix it for her.
"Leave it, Yami," she told me, "It'll be fine."
For some reason, I felt uneasy just leaving it alone. Like I wanted to prevent something.
As the two of us were heading for a street intersection, we heard murmuring. When we got closer, the words became clearer.
"Why would you want her as your queen when you could have me? I mean honestly, she's seen better days," I heard a girl say.
The familiarity of the voice, for some reason, rang in my ears. It was Brittney, the female, blonde bimbo. I wondered who she was talking to.
"I would understand that. Her crutches and everything. Most of her votes, if she gets any, will most likely be pity votes. You, on the other hand will be getting every single vote on your own accord. I like that in you. I don't want to be her pairing anymore."
I was insulted. And I thought that he was a friend, too. But he had betrayed us time and time again. The creep had been a part of a gang that had gone after Yugi a few weeks before, and then this had to happen.
Anna was getting upset when she heard the voice. When we reached the corner, she turned toward the two that were talking. I turned as well. It had been who I had thought it was.
"DUKE DEVLIN, HOW DARE YOU!"
I stood back. I had never seen Anna blow her top like that before. Never.
"Anna, I- I- I-"
"You- you- you- you what? Didn't mean it? Sure, right, uh-huh. And you didn't mean to flirt with her either, right?"
I was going to step in and pull her out, but I stopped myself. Duke needed this reality check. This was going to be the second of many that he would be getting in the future, I realized.
Watching Anna's backpack zipper, I noticed that it had unzipped halfway, and was still undoing itself slowly. There was a book of some sort inside of the pocket that was being undone. If the closure opened any more, it would surely fall out.
"Look, what she was saying. What she was doing-"
"Was wanting me to look bad. I heard you agree with her. Even talking about how most my votes would be from pity. That is, if I got any," she snapped.
I tried to re-zip the pocket. She sent me a death glare and I just stepped back. Had I gone after it again with her in that dangerous of a mood, I would have probably lost my arm.
"Listen, Devlin, I will get those votes on my own, not from pity. And I will get more than her. I just thank the heavens that the Sweethearts pairings are only for activities and not really for the couples. If they had been, my pairing would be short a king."
"Well don't you feel special," Brittney smirked, laughing a little bit.
"Don't you EVEN get me started on you, b*tch. I have had enough of you and I swear I will get even with you."
"What are you talking about? What did I do to you?"
"Remember last semester when you were bashing and making fun of Yugi Motou? Do you remember that, you snobby piece of white-trash?"
I attempted to pull her away by her arm. She stayed put.
"Vaguely, yes," the blonde-ditz wonder sighed, rolling her eyes at my angered, crutch-bearing friend. "Why?"
"Yugi is my friend and you had no right to do that to him. To see you do what you did and say what you said didn't just hurt him. Hell no, you selfish dog, it hurt all of his friends. And, may I remind you that Seto Kaiba - you know, the one you like so much - is one of them as well. So if you want him, you are going to have to do a heck of a freaking lot more than just flirt with him and try to make yourself look pretty. Oh, no, those won't be enough to cut it with him. And don't even try apologizing to any and/or all of us alone either. There is nothing that you or your little friends can do, snotty little daughter of a piece of $h!t."
Brittney just stared at Anna. She was. She was terrified of her now. I had to admit, she had scared me, too. But both Brittney and Duke deserved this.
"Anna, stop this!" Devlin finally got the nerve to say.
"Duke, shut up."
"No, this is between you and me. Not you and her."
"Listen, you so-called friend, this stopped being just between you and me when you started flirting with this piece of garbage."
Anna turned away from the two and started to go to her home by herself. I watched as the book that was in the unzipping pocket slipped over halfway out.
"Anna!"
She spun around on her good foot, her crutches off the ground and the book flying out of her bag. "Devlin, just shut up! You just don't understand what the hell you've done." With that, she just went back to walking to her house alone.
Going over to where the book lay in the snow, I saw that it was a white, hard-back book with a glossy-type of protection on it. Multi-colored butterflies filled the entire front and back of it.
Hesitantly, I picked it up. I wiped the snow off of it and examined it further. It was a journal. Anna's journal. I had seen her write in it several times, I had just never realized it.
That's when I was hit with some sort of wave of confusion. I thought to myself, should I return this to her now. or wait until tomorrow?
Then I started to walk for Yugi and my home where he and Katya were waiting.
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Anaka: O_O Yami: I had no clue you knew such language. Anna: I know a heck of a lot more than that. That's not even the tip of the iceberg. Katya: Well. That was one interesting chapter that has to be followed up with. Yugi: Anna and Katya wish that you R&R and they would like it if you DID NOT FLAME!!!!!